Just going through the office and found an old credit card statement from 1993. On there was a computer purchase for a Tandy Sensation and SVGA monitor. Specs: 486SX, 107 MB harddrive, cd rom, soundcard, 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drive. Price with tax was $3700. Then I take a look at my NCIX order that I put through today and it blows my mind.....

Coincidentally, I just watched the Jurassic Park 20th Anniversary edition Blu-Ray (original picture release date: 1993) with a few other engineer/CS/nerd-type friends, and we got a good horselaugh when revisiting the cutting-edge computer control systems. Overall the film's content has aged rather well, but there's just no way to disguise a spread of 1993-grade CRTs, or a graphical security system program that builds suspense by choking down to 3fps while rendering less detail than an Excel 3D bar graph.

What annoys me is when Bones does anything related to computer technology. Anything.

Anything.

It's painful to watch them get it so, so wrong. Like terribly wrong. Like a Marmoset hopped up on PCP and Bath Salts would do a better job at portraying computing technology. Even NCIS is better and that's saying something(Regardless of your opinion of the show, it is very inaccurate when it comes to computing tech, though not as bad as Bones). All of this is coming from a major Bones fan.

I just have to say Horatio's is the lamest Badass on earth. He needs to get replaced. Perhaps a hooker kills him buy beating him to death with her pocketbook or something in a going away episode...or better yet he goes or his gun and shoots himself in his femoral artery and bleeds out with one of his badass sayings like imm so bad no one could take me out but myself

I just have to say Horatio's is the lamest Badass on earth. He needs to get replaced. Perhaps a hooker kills him buy beating him to death with her pocketbook or something in a going away episode...or better yet he goes or his gun and shoots himself in his femoral artery and bleeds out with one of his badass sayings like imm so bad no one could take me out but myself

... while putting his shades on!

The Model M is not for the faint of heart. You either like them or hate them.

Just going through the office and found an old credit card statement from 1993. On there was a computer purchase for a Tandy Sensation and SVGA monitor. Specs: 486SX, 107 MB harddrive, cd rom, soundcard, 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drive. Price with tax was $3700

I had one of those old Sensations when I was a kid. 486SX-25 (eventually replaced with a DX2-50 Overdrive), no 5.25" drive, 4MB of 80ns FPM DRAM upgradeable to 32MB of 72-pin SIMMs, onboard WD Paradise SVGA with 512K of RAM upgradeable to 1MB, onboard AdLib sound, built-in 2400 BPS modem/4800 BPS fax. IIRC (and I may not) it cost my parents $2k with the 14" monitor, in June of '93. This was back when CD-ROM drives were new and exotic - remember the Jeep computers in Jurassic Park?

Just going through the office and found an old credit card statement from 1993. On there was a computer purchase for a Tandy Sensation and SVGA monitor. Specs: 486SX, 107 MB harddrive, cd rom, soundcard, 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drive. Price with tax was $3700

I had one of those old Sensations when I was a kid. 486SX-25 (eventually replaced with a DX2-50 Overdrive), no 5.25" drive, 4MB of 80ns FPM DRAM upgradeable to 32MB of 72-pin SIMMs, onboard WD Paradise SVGA with 512K of RAM upgradeable to 1MB, onboard AdLib sound, built-in 2400 BPS modem/4800 BPS fax. IIRC (and I may not) it cost my parents $2k with the 14" monitor, in June of '93. This was back when CD-ROM drives were new and exotic - remember the Jeep computers in Jurassic Park?

That was my introduction to x86, MS-DOS, Windows, and a BBS.

Ya I remember playing Wing Commander on that system.... good old days.

What annoys me is when Bones does anything related to computer technology. Anything.

Anything.

It's painful to watch them get it so, so wrong. Like terribly wrong. Like a Marmoset hopped up on PCP and Bath Salts would do a better job at portraying computing technology. Even NCIS is better and that's saying something(Regardless of your opinion of the show, it is very inaccurate when it comes to computing tech, though not as bad as Bones). All of this is coming from a major Bones fan.

Coincidentally, I just watched the Jurassic Park 20th Anniversary edition Blu-Ray (original picture release date: 1993) with a few other engineer/CS/nerd-type friends, and we got a good horselaugh when revisiting the cutting-edge computer control systems. Overall the film's content has aged rather well, but there's just no way to disguise a spread of 1993-grade CRTs, or a graphical security system program that builds suspense by choking down to 3fps while rendering less detail than an Excel 3D bar graph.